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Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

In research, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#4,837 of 6,031 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#13,395 of 14,347 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#35,516
of 42,892
Rank in United States
#7,524
of 8,685
Research works
237
▼ 40% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.2k
17.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
38%
world 28%

What is Santa Barbara Botanic Garden known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #4,837 of 6,031 35.5%141
Life SciencesDomain #13,395 of 14,347 33.9%181

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Santa Barbara Botanic Garden sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 13.45× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.13× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 10.69× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.29× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.51× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMedicineEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 13.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden?

Ranked on the composite score, Edward L. Schneider lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

  1. 1 Edward L. Schneider United States · #85,758 worldwide 308 citations · 44 works
All ranked researchers at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Which keywords describe research at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Biogeography, Taxonomy, Molecular Phylogeny, Angiosperm Phylogeny, Flowering Plants, Biodiversity, Climate Change and Invasive Species.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Biogeography99▲ 125×13 topics
  2. Taxonomy49▲ 137×6 topics
  3. Molecular Phylogeny46▲ 96×4 topics
  4. Angiosperm Phylogeny45▲ 600×1 topic
  5. Flowering Plants45▲ 600×1 topic
  6. Climate Change39▲ 6.1×23 topics
  7. Biodiversity35▲ 19×12 topics
  8. Invasive Species34▲ 25×11 topics
  9. Phylogeny30▲ 71×8 topics
  10. Habitat Fragmentation25▲ 37×5 topics
  11. Global Change24▲ 32×4 topics
  12. Antioxidant22▲ 14×12 topics
  13. molecular systematics20▲ 332×2 topics
  14. Ecosystem Services20▲ 24×5 topics
  15. Gesneriaceae19▲ 444×1 topic
  16. phylogenetic reconstruction19▲ 444×1 topic
  17. Plant-Animal Interactions19▲ 71×1 topic
  18. Pollinator Decline19▲ 71×1 topic
  19. Polyploidy18▲ 109×4 topics
  20. Conservation17▲ 15×10 topics
  21. Epiphytes14▲ 471×1 topic
  22. Ferns14▲ 471×1 topic
  23. Phylogenetic Analysis13▲ 15×9 topics
  24. Medicinal Plants13▲ 15×9 topics
  25. Phytochemical Analysis10▲ 82×2 topics
  26. Cyperus9▲ 201×1 topic
  27. essential oil9▲ 201×1 topic
  28. Bioactive Compounds9▲ 20×4 topics
  29. Antioxidant Activity9▲ 7.1×9 topics
  30. Health Benefits9▲ 13×3 topics
  31. Phytochemicals9▲ 45×4 topics
  32. Vegetation9▲ 37×2 topics
  33. Nutrition8▲ 8.3×2 topics
  34. Betalains8▲ 163×1 topic
  35. Mycorrhizal Fungi8▲ 49×2 topics
  36. Opuntia8▲ 163×1 topic
  37. Mosses8▲ 100×2 topics
  38. Symbiosis8▲ 28×3 topics
  39. Secondary Metabolites8▲ 34×2 topics
  40. Fungi7▲ 105×2 topics

Which research topics does Santa Barbara Botanic Garden publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Plant and animal studies, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Plant and animal studies: 2 fractional worksBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies: 2 fractional worksPlant Diversity and Evolution: 1 fractional worksPlant Parasitism and Resistance: 1 fractional worksPlant and Fungal Species Descriptions: 1 fractional worksEcology and Vegetation D…1Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies: 1 fractional worksPiperaceae Chemical and Biological Studies: 1 fractional worksLichen and fungal ecology: 1 fractional worksRangeland and Wildlife Management: 1 fractional worksGenetic diversity and population structure: 0 fractional works
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsPlant ScienceMolecular BiologyNature and Landscape Conservation3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Plant and animal studies Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2 works
  2. 2 Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies Plant Science 2 works
  3. 3 Plant Diversity and Evolution Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  4. 4 Plant Parasitism and Resistance Plant Science 1 works
  5. 5 Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions Molecular Biology 1 works
  6. 6 Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 1 works
  7. 7 Piperaceae Chemical and Biological Studies Pharmacology 1 works
  8. 8 Lichen and fungal ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1 works
  9. 9 Rangeland and Wildlife Management Ecology 1 works
  10. 10 Genetic diversity and population structure Genetics 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available38.5%not open61.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.5%domestic only94.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Santa Barbara Botanic Garden's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 40% lower than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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